Download or read book The Bavarian Dialect in Frankenmuth Michigan After a Century of American Influence written by Donald L. Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan German in Frankenmuth written by Renate Born and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect, Michigan Frankenmuth. Professor Born's book provides a phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect that has never before been studied. It compares the Michigan Frankenmuth dialect with its parent dialect in central Franconia. The town of Frankenmuth was established in 1845 by an unusually homogeneous group of orthodox Lutherans bent on remaining separate from the American mainstream. The settlement history was therefore a significantfactor in postponing the shift to American English in Frankenmuth until the middle of this century. This study will be of interest to scholars and students of dialectology, contrastive dialectology, and sociolinguistics.
Download or read book The German Language in America 1683 1991 written by Joe Salmons and published by Max Kade Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents seventeen articles, revised and expanded from a Max Kade Symposium, on the German language in North America. It includes historical studies (colonial German in contrast with Native American languages, the language of Pietism among colonial immigrants), dialect descriptions (Donau-schwäbisch in the Midwest, Low German in Kansas, Volga German in Kansas) and investigations into the impact of German on English (German ethnic varieties of English, German in advertising, German loanwords in American English). Research on language maintenance and shift is especially well-represented, with a general theoretical contribution and case studies of Alberta, Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas, and the Amana colonies. Methodological and theoretical issues include case loss and morphosyntactic change (East Franconian in Indiana), a comparative study of German in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as several papers on Pennsylvania German, treating linguistic convergence, language attitudes, and sociolingusitic variation.
Download or read book Michigan Germanic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertations and Theses in Michigan History written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Germanic Influence in the Making of Michigan written by John Andrew Russell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Lutheranism in Michigan written by Eugene Poppen and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folklife written by Simon J Bronner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 2856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America - from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco - through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art. Featuring more than 350 A-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of American Folklife" is wide-ranging and inclusive. Entries cover major cities and urban centers; new and established immigrant groups as well as native Americans; American territories, such as Guam and Samoa; major issues, such as education and intellectual property; and expressions of material culture, such as homes, dress, food, and crafts. This encyclopedia covers notable folklife areas as well as general regional categories. It addresses religious groups (reflecting diversity within groups such as the Amish and the Jews), age groups (both old age and youth gangs), and contemporary folk groups (skateboarders and psychobillies) - placing all of them in the vivid tapestry of folklife in America. In addition, this resource offers useful insights on folklife concepts through entries such as "community and group" and "tradition and culture." The set also features complete indexes in each volume, as well as a bibliography for further research.
Download or read book How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch written by Michael J. Douma and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch-American ethnic group demonstrates the persistence of Dutchness, which, however, has come to mean many different things in an American context. This study demonstrates that Dutch identities, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth-century immigrants, have survived precisely because of this flexibility: the evolution of tradition, not its rigid preservation, is the unifying principle of social cohesion. As Douma contends, to understand ethnic groups we need to see them as historically developing, changeable categories.
Download or read book The Wilhelm Krupp Family written by Cynthia Spurgat Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Weiss Krupp was born 25 January 1829 in Riesenberg, West Prussia. His parents were David Krupp (1803-1869) and Dorothea Weiss. He married Anna Cherr (1831-1906), daughter of Gottfried Cherr and Eva Klotzke, 2 April 1854. They had ten children. They emigrated in 1881 and settled in Michigan. He died 1 April 1906 in Big Rapids, Michigan. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Michigan.
Download or read book Colonialism Antisemitism and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany written by Christian Davis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of anti-Semitic behaviors in the German empire in the pre-WWI period
Download or read book Confession and Mission Word and Sacrament written by David C. Ratke and published by Concordia Publishing House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life of Lutheran pastor Withelm Lone who Lone who spearheaded mission work in America.
Download or read book The American Midwest written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 1918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Download or read book The Invention of Ethnicity written by Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents: On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed. Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses", Alide Cagidemetrio. Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen. Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn. Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti. Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro. Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan.
Download or read book Can Hope Endure written by James C. Kennedy and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spate of books written recently on Christian higher education highlights a common theme -- how numerous colleges founded by church bodies have gradually lost their religious moorings, often culminating in what historian George Marsden calls "established nonbelief." Can Hope Endure? examines the history of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, as it has struggled to find a faithful middle way between secularization and withdrawal from mainstream academic and American culture. Authors James Kennedy and Caroline Simon track Hope College's responses to various social and intellectual challenges through careful analysis of school records, newspaper stories, extant histories, and interviews with faculty members and past presidents. Hope's history reveals that the school is exceptional, having followed the predictable trajectory, yet changing course in some ways. Given this unusual history, the story of why and how Hope College moved toward reestablishing the role of religion in its institutional life yields important lessons for other schools facing the same challenges. Neither an attack on Hope College nor the kind of celebratory institutional history that so many schools have authorized, this book is instead a thoughtful, instructive study written by two professors who have witnessed firsthand many of Hope's struggles to retain its identity and purpose. The book's narrative is enriched by the "binocular vision" provided by a professional historian and a professional philosopher, and collaboration has afforded Kennedy and Simon the critical distance necessary to ask hard questions about Hope and, by extension, other institutions like it. Can Hope Endure? will be of real interest not only to readers associated with Hope College but also to those following or participating in the ongoing conversation about Christianity and higher education.
Download or read book John Calvin written by William J. Bouwsma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theology as forbidding as himself. This volume, written by the eminent historian William J. Bouwsma, who has devoted his career to exploring the larger patterns of early modern European history, seeks to redress these common misconceptions of Calvin by placing him back in the proper historical context of his time. Eloquently depicting Calvin's life as a French exile, a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, and a man unusually sensitive to the complexities and contradictions of later Renaissance culture, Bouwsma reveals a surprisingly human, plausible, ecumenical, and often sympathetic Calvin. John Calvin offers a brilliant reassessment not only of Calvin but also of the Reformation and its relationship to the movements of the Renaissance.
Download or read book Our Pioneer Heroes and Daring Deeds written by D. M. Kelsey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
